If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENSo yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It’s cruel, it’s brutal, it’s inhumane, and most people don’t want it.
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If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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Kids grow up awfully fast these days,”she said. “You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
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You could move.’ —“Dear Abby” responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can’t speak for my twin sister.
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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
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If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
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